title: Enabling the use of enhanced medical SOPs by an mLearning training solution.
abstract: Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) has been introduced as a way to provide direction, improve communication, reduce training time and improve work consistency. In healthcare, SOPs may be considered as a means that can fundamentally change the way healthcare is provided, affecting all types of healthcare stakeholders and improving healthcare decisions and patient safety. Nowadays, providing ehealth services is a necessity, even though some healthcare organizations are reluctant to fully use them. An online mobile training facility embedded within ehealth services may increase the likelihood of their adoption by healthcare professionals, who feel that, when needed, they are provided the necessary support for performing each task, as handheld devices and other mobile technologies are showing increased adoption rates. This paper presents a mobile service that provides training content on SOPs, that can be embedded in a relevant ehealth service and can be accessed by authorized healthcare professionals where and when needed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece.
authors.forename: Despina
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Papakonstantinou
authors.forename: Mikaela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Poulymenopoulou
authors.forename: Flora
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Malamateniou
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vassilacopoulos
mesh_terms: D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D034201:Computers, Handheld; D005060:Europe; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012984:Software; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*